BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s stay out of jail period will be extended again if her family members submit an application, Law Minister Anisul Huq has said.
“We are waiting on Khaleda Zia’s family members to ask for it. If they do, the period will definitely be extended,” he told reporters at an event in Dhaka on Saturday.
Khaleda Zia spent some time in Old Dhaka Central Jail as a lower court sentenced her to five years' imprisonment in the Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case on February 8, 2018.
Later, she was found guilty in another corruption case the same year.
Amid the coronavirus outbreak, the government temporarily freed Khaleda from jail through an executive order suspending her sentence on March 25, 2020, on conditions that she would stay at her Gulshan house, and would not leave the country.
The BNP chief was admitted to Evercare Hospital several times after she had tested positive for Covid-19 in April 2021.
Khaleda's family submitted several applications to the government seeking permission to send her to an advanced centre abroad for the treatment of her multiple health complications, but the government has rejected it every time as she was convicted of corruption by the court in two cases.
